Author: Jesus Alvarez

Officials with water districts throughout drought-stricken California said Wednesday they support a proposed move to put the agencies in control of conservation after a wet winter eased conditions in some parts of the state. A proposal being considered by the State Water Resources Control Board in Sacramento would allow local districts […]

Original Story | CNN.com May 18, 2016 By Eric Bradner (CNN) – Bernie Sanders won more delegates than Hillary Clinton on Tuesday night — but not enough to slow Clinton’s march to the Democratic presidential nomination. Clinton won Kentucky by a razor-thin margin, while Sanders notched a bigger 53% to 47% […]

Original Story | CNN.com May 12, 2016 By Manu Raju and Jeremy Diamond (CNN) – Donald Trump and House Speaker Paul Ryan concluded their highly anticipated meeting Thursday amid early signals that the Republican Party will work to piece itself together after a fractious primary. “While we were honest about our […]

Governor Jerry Brown has signed a package of anti-tobacco bills that includes raising the California legal smoking age to 21. Brown had a midnight deadline for six anti-tobacco bills and he signed five. Brown vetoed a bill that would have allowed counties and cities to ask voters to approve local tobacco taxes. Another […]

Original Story | CNN.com May 4, 2016 By David Chalian Washington – Now that Donald Trump is the presumptive Republican nominee, it’s time to start looking at general election match-ups between him and the likely Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. Here’s the CNN Political Unit’s first look at the battleground map […]

Original Story | CNN.com April 27, 2016 By Jeremy Diamond and Stephen Collinson (CNN) – Donald Trump on Wednesday delivered a major foreign policy speech in Washington, laying out his vision for a foreign policy that will put “America first.” Trump opened his speech Wednesday vowing to “shake the rust […]

The California Division of Oil, Gas, and Geothermal Resources will conduct workshops in late April aimed at engineers with experience in petroleum production who may be interested in job opportunities in the regulatory field. The Bakersfield job fair is designed, organizers say, to help fill dozens of recently-created positions to conduct inspections […]

Original Story | CNN.com April 20, 2016 By Theodore Schleifer (CNN) – The map weaves from hardscrabble downstate Delaware to heavily Catholic Rhode Island to tony Fairfield County boating towns on the waterfront of Long Island Sound. Not exactly Cruz Country. Fresh off a bruising defeat at the hands of Donald […]

Original Story | CNN.com April 13, 2016 By Tom LoBianco (CNN) – Call it the Republican convention’s nuclear option: GOP delegates fly into Cleveland and are freed from voting for Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, or even John Kasich. From the first ballot on, the concept goes, delegates simply pick anyone they […]

Original Story | CNN.com April 4, 2016 By Manu Raju (CNN) – When Marco Rubio dropped out of the GOP race, he made this clear: “I’ll be a private citizen in January.” But that doesn’t mean he’s done with politics. In private conversations with supporters and donors over the last several […]